This foul-mouthed drunk breached a banning order within 48 hours, launching a tirade of foul-mouthed abuse at a police officer in front of children, and now he is behind bars.

Ross Vicars, 25, was issued with the criminal behaviour order (CBO) by Truro magistrates for a string of booze-fuelled anti-social behaviour across the county and most recently in Truro .

Magistrates handed the order to Vicars, whose address is listed as C/O Cottage Gardens, Launceston, which meant that he could not be drunk anywhere in public in Cornwall or have an open container of alcohol in a public place in the county.

The three-year CBO also said he could not use abusive language or behaviour, make threats use physical gestures, causing nuisance or obstruction that would cause offence to any person, intimidation or distress directly or indirectly within Cornwall.

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Inspector Rick Milburn welcomed the order made on March 8 saying: "This individual has repeatedly proven that he cannot abide by the rules of society and continually commits offences which cause nuisance and distress to the wider public.

Ross Vicars

"This order will afford additional protection to all those in our community and if he chooses to ignore it he is liable to find himself in prison."

But just two days later Truro police officers were called to the city's Moorfield car park after a passer-by spotted a drunk Vicars on one of the car park's ramps.

Sergeant Marc Sayers, neighbourhood team leader at Truro police, said the police officers tried to speak to Vicars who was extremely drunk and was holding a "virtually empty bottle of Pimms" and started hurling verbal abuse at them.

He then spat at a vehicle while children walked nearby and continued with his tirade of foul language before officers arrested him for being drunk and disorderly, for being drunk in a public place, for having an open an alcohol container and for being foul and abusive.

He was jailed at Truro Magistrates' Court for 12 weeks for breaching the CBO and 14 weeks for breach of a suspended sentence.

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Sgt Sayers said: "Vicars is simply a horrible person. He has come to Truro which isn't his home town and in a matter of weeks has committed so many offences – 11 in fact within a few months."

He said he had been such a problem agencies had worked fast to seek the CBO, but even that didn't curb Vicars' bad ways.

Sgt Sayers added: "He uses disgusting language, spits and simply doesn't care who is around. On this occasion it was children. The public should not be forced to suffer this sort of abuse and a strong custodial sentence is welcome for him."